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The host country B Team rule no longer exists, but there would be a wildcard option fulfilling the criteria fairly easily as home country based and the profile of any yet to be named non industry team sponsors. So, does anyone have any Korean team rumours to drag this conversation back on thread ?

No22 bikes are stunning.

Why is it so impossible for you to demonstrate basic decency in a conversation? You find yourself banned from every single forum you join.

I'm sure Marc is vastly more intelligent than myself, but he's also a malignant narcissist whose vision of the of the future is terrifying if you dig into it. He doesn't explicitly state it in his manifesto, but he's clearly all in on accelerationism and the Neo-Reactionary (NRX) movement AKA the "Dark Enlightenment". Tech billionaires are attempting to trying to destroy America and rebuild what they are calling "Network States", which are essentially corporate fiefdoms. This is part of the reason why they are trying to sell off public lands. They need land (and farm land) to accomplish this. https://thenetworkstate.com/...

For a flat bar rigid bike for light xc / gravelling it sounds great. Get me one to complement my 650b trail bike which I still ride and love. Of course we said the same 15 to 20 years ago about 29ers and now we have 29er dh bikes.

I hate everything about 32" wheels, but after losing the battle over the word "loam" I just don't know if I have any fight left in me.

A new crew will be starting on the DH.

https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/2024-racing-talk?page=39#comment-47… (oh i wish link 'titles' worked differently, anyway, gonna have to dust this one off once again)

DH build at Whiteface (lake placid) is not going well and the builder (JW) has been replaced.

It’s time people accept that we ask 140mm frames to ride the same trails and features that used to be exclusive to downhill bikes. The big difference is the trail bike has to do it with a dropper post and 12 speed cassette

100%. Saw him practice in Windham and he was far and away faster and wilder than anyone else on the track. It was insane actually.

This is so cool that Lawlor's making this, and it's been cool to see the Irish riders get faster and faster to get where we're at now with multiple riders who could take a WC win on any given weekend. Also, I look forward to the gratuitous Ben Reid schralp footage, because he's a top five practice-winner of all time, and the camera loves his riding style. If you never had the chance to watch Ben Reid win practice in person, your life is poorer for it.

Intense never used SAPA in Portland, OR. They had their own, in-house production line in CA. AFAIK did Santa Cruz and Turner use SAPA for a while.